Actor Cody Longo, best known for his roles in the soap operas Hollywood Heights and Days of Our Lives, was found dead in his home this week while police were performing a wellness check, TMZ reports.
Longo was only 34 years old. “He was an amazing father and the best husband. Our whole world is shattered,” Longo’s wife, Stephanie, was quoted telling TMZ.
He leaves behind his wife and three children, a 5-year-old and 1-year-old son, and a 7-year-old daughter.
The grim discovery was reportedly made Wednesday at Longo’s home in Austin, Texas. His wife became concerned after she could not reach him and asked police to check it out, prompting them to find the lifeless actor in his bed.
After getting his start on Days of Our Lives in 2011, Longo went on to get roles in Bring It On: Fight to The Finish and Nashville. He was also a songwriter, with his song “She Said” making it into the Billboard Top 100 charts in 2014, according to his bio on IMDB.
Authorities have not yet released a cause of death. An unnamed family member told TMZ that Longo had gone to rehab last summer and long struggled with alcohol abuse. The actor appeared to confirm as much himself in several Facebook posts.
“I love my family more than I ever knew was possible,” he wrote in a January 2021 post in which he announced he was ready to “start over” after breaking a “long span of sobriety.”
Just over a year after that, in March 2022, he appeared to write about going through another rough period before vowing to “do better.” His main priority, he said, was his “little family,” and his goal was to “stay alive to walk my daughter down the aisle, and hangout with my grandkids with my beautiful wife right next to me.”
